Robert Browning Author:C. H. Herford Browning's poetry is seen by the author as one of the most potent of the influences which in the nineteenth century helped to break down the shallow and mischievous distinction between the "sacred" and the "secular" and to set in its place the profounder division between man enslaved by apathy, routine and mechanical morality, and man lifted by ... more »the law of love into a service which is perfect freedom, into an approximation to God which is only the fullest realization of humanity.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College; Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.« less